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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Wheatley has been set to direct MGM’s Tomb Raider sequel, with the studio setting a release date of March 19, 2021. Alicia Vikander is reprising her role as the treasure-hunting action heroine Lara Croft. Amy Jump is writing the sequel script and Graham King is producing through his GK Films banner, and…

Fox and New Regency's four-time Oscar winner Bohemian Rhapsody rocked across the $900M mark globally this weekend. With $900.6M through Sunday, the highest-grossing music biopic in history is also Fox's 4th biggest movie ever worldwide, behind Avatar, Titanic and Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace. Talk about a…

EXCLUSIVE: Get ready for another Tomb Raider with Alicia Vikander. MGM and Warner Bros have hired Amy Jump to write the script for the sequel. Sources said Vikander liked what she was in Jump’s scripting.
She is best known for her collaborations with director and partner Ben Wheatley, who co-wrote several of them…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Graham King, whose 12-year journey to make Bohemian Rhapsody culminated with four Oscars last month, will receive the International Filmmaker of the Year Award at this year’s CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
The Oscar-winning producer will receive his honor April 1 during the NATO exhibition confab’s International Day…

EXCLUSIVE: Members of the international industry community gathered on Thursday night in Los Angeles to celebrate the life of Samuel Hadida, the veteran French producer and distributor who passed away suddenly in November. The event was hosted by a group of companies that included Constantin, FilmNation, Lionsgate…

Bohemian Rhapsody soars on the strength of a performance by Rami Malek, who got under the skin of iconic Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in a way that has made him the prohibitive favorite in the Oscar Best Actor race. The film chronicles the formation, rise, and adversity weathered by the band before its titanic 1985…

UPDATED with backstage comments:20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody, the long-gestating musical biopic homage to the rock band Queen and its frontman Freddie Mercury, punched its ticket as a frontrunner in the Best Picture Oscar race by winning the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama on Sunday.
One award…

When Sacha Baron Cohen left the Freddie Mercury biopic back in 2013, it was hard to imagine another chameleon who could step into the skin of the flamboyant 1970s-80s musical genius who died at 45 after battling AIDS. Then came Mr. Robotstar Rami Malek who went from playing a paranoid introvert on the USA series, to…

20th Century Fox/New Regency/GK Films’ Bohemian Rhapsodyhad the best Sunday hold of any title in the top 10, off just 29% from Saturday with $13.4 million, sending the Freddie Mercury biopic’s opening to $51M, $1M higher than the studio was spotting yesterday. Even better, Bohemian Rhapsody bested the lowest end of…

As the Fall Festival train continues (this week in New York, The Hamptons, London etc) and distributors continue to roll out their awards season goodies, 20th Century Fox bypassed the idea of a fest unveiling and presented the first screening of their Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, last night on the Fox lot in L.A…

EXCLUSIVE: As Paramount Pictures chairman/CEO Jim Gianopulos bolsters his film ranks, he has staked Graham King and his GK Films to a three year first look deal to make movies for the studio. King will move his company onto the Paramount lot right away. The studio confirmed the deal to Deadline. Even though they’ve…